Manhunt! Another Donut Driver Harms Pride Mural

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Maybe they shouldn't paint Pride murals on the street? 

Just sayin'. 

There is yet another manhunt for a person who defaced a Pride flag (is it a flag if it is just rainbow stripes) painted at an intersection in Saint Petersburg, Florida. This is the second hate donut incident in as many weeks, instilling terror in the hearts of all St. Pete gays. 

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According to St. Petersburg Pride Poohbah Dr. Byron Green-Calisch, the mural is a "love letter" to the gay community, declaring that all are welcome in Saint Petersburg. How nice. 

You may remember another such incident earlier this year in which a college student defaced a Pride intersection in Delray Beach by doing burnouts. He was charged with a felony, as will this perp should he be caught. 

Maybe they shouldn't paint Pride murals in the streets?

Over the past few years, we have seen riots that have burned down swathes of cities, vandals destroying statues, occupations defacing college campuses, and climate change activists attacking artworks, gluing themselves to roads, and throwing paint on buildings. 

Little to nothing is done about any of these things. 

But leaving tire marks on an actual road is a felony worthy of a manhunt. 

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Some people are more equal than others, that's for sure. Nobody is above the law except those who are above the law. Everybody is protected by the law except those who are not. 

No doubt we will be lectured on how this proves there is systemic hate against the Rainbow People, but the truth is quite the opposite. There is no more coddled group in the West than the alphabet crowd. 

Police cars are painted rainbow colors. The White House has pride celebrations. News stations celebrate Pride. Schools celebrate. Libraries celebrate. There are parades, festivals, and children's shows; every business does something to celebrate. 

But a kid does donuts on a street, and there is a manhunt. Somebody in Queers for Hamas might be offended if all of law enforcement isn't mobilized. 

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I've never understood the whole Pride thing. Having grown up in the 70s and 80s, I was friends with a couple of openly gay guys, although I admit that I thought that lesbians were more a myth than a reality. I knew they existed, but I don't think they were nearly as prominent as gay guys. 

Pride parades, though, were definitely fringe and were unabashedly outré and hypersexualized. Now, they are mainstream and openly sexualized. 

LGB rights became mainstream when LGB people became mainstream. People understand love and families and generally have no problem with people if they abide by the mainstream norms. 

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Pride, though, is mostly about rejecting mainstream norms, and Queer is defined as rejecting mainstream society, at least as it has come to be understood. Originally, it was a derogatory term for gay people, but as part of the LGBTQIA+/-% pantheon, the Q refers to people who are aggressively anti-normative. 

For a brief moment, it seemed as if we, as a society, were going to put sex itself back into the bedroom. That was part of the appeal made by the gay community. It's nobody's business what people do behind closed doors. 

Now, you can't escape sexual identity in public, and the alphabet ideology is all about breaking norms. And a lot of people feel attacked for not going along. 

Should these people have burned rubber on the Pride display? No. 

Is it a surprise they did? Is it a hate crime? Should there be a manhunt? Should it be a felony?

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Nope. Quit shoving all this in our faces, and the temperature would go down. If you don't want this to be a culture war issue, shut up about it. What goes on in the bedroom should stay there. 

As a 60-year-old overweight man, I suspect you don't care to know about my sex life; believe it or not, I don't want to know about yours. It's gross. 

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